MAURITIUS is reeling from Tropical Cyclone Gelena as it moves away from the island chain and into the ocean. But a look at this map shows there are more disturbances.

A tropical cyclone is a huge, rapidly rotating storm system with the potential to become very destructive if moving over land. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. In the south Pacific or Indian Ocean, comparable storms are referred to simply as tropical cyclones.